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On Friday, September 7, at 9:30 a.m., a parachute test for a future mission to Mars successfully launched on a...
A sounding rocket seconds in mid-launch off the launch pad with a bright white plume underneath. The rocket, from bottom to top, has yellow fins on the bottom, a white body section, black fins, a black body section, than an alternating silver and purple section with a silver cone-shaped top. In the background is a clue blue sky.
Students watch as their experiments launch aboard a sounding rocket for the RockSat-X program from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Aug....
In the foreground, a line of people stand at a safe distance away from a sounding rocket launching in the background. The rocket is just off the pad with a plume of fire and smoke underneath.
The De Leon mission launched with three experiments aboard a Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket on March 7, 2016. The mission...
A sounding rocket attached to a launcher. The rocket, from bottom to top, has yellow fins on the bottom, a white body section, bright yellow fins, a dark green section, a silver body section then a red body section, and then a silver cone-shaped top.
On May 10, 2022, a NASA sounding rocket carrying instruments to measure Earth's electric potential and provide a clue as...
A sounding rocket launching with a plume smoke underneath against a snowy mountainside.
A composite image of 30 long exposure shots of both the MTeX and MIST sounding rocket launches from Poker Flat...
A long-exposure image of four sounding rockets, represented by four bright white streaks, launching in the bright green aurora that swirls through the sky. The stars are seen as small white streaks, creating a circular pattern around the center of the image, where the north star is located.
A three-stage suborbital sounding rocket launched on the afternoon of March 3, 2021, from Wallops Island for the Department of...
A sounding rocket seconds in mid-launch off the launch pad with a bright yellow plume underneath. The rocket, from bottom to top, has yellow fins on the bottom, a white section, bright yellow fins, a white section, bright yellow fins, a red section that leads to a silver section, and then a black cone-shaped top. In the background is a blue sky.
A two-stage Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket carrying the experiments for the High Operational Tempo (HOTShot) program launched at 6:07...
A sounding rocket seconds in mid-launch off the launch pad with a bright white plume underneath. The rocket is silhouetted by the sun behind it. In the background is a blue sky with big, puffy white clouds.
A Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket lifts off from the pad at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
A Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket lifts off from the pad at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
On Thursday, ‎August ‎11, ‎2022, a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket for the RockSat-X mission launched from Wallops Island, VA, carrying...
A sounding rocket launching from its pad with a white plume underneath.
A sounding rocket being prepared for launch on the launch pad at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
View of sounding rocket horizontal on the launch pad, photograph taken from the back end of the rocket.
On Friday, September 7, at 9:30 a.m., a parachute test for a future mission to Mars successfully launched on a...
A sounding rocket launches with a bright white plume underneath against a clear, pale blue sky.
A Black Brant IX sounding rocket launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility's 50K launcher at 1:56 p.m. EDT carrying the...
Landscape photo of a sounding rocket seconds in mid-launch off the launch pad with a bright white plume underneath. In the background is a clue blue sky. A beach line is seen on the left of the image, and various buildings and tall structures are farther in the background.